# excito
## Catalan
### Verb

excito
* first-person singular present indicative of excitar

## Latin
### Etymology

The frequentative form of exciere (“call out, arouse, excite”), from ex- (“out; forth”) +‎ ciere (“call, summon”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈeks.ki.toː/, [ˈɛks̠kɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈeks.t͡ʃi.to/, [ˈɛkst͡ʃit̪o]

### Verb

excitō (present infinitive excitāre, perfect active excitāvī, supine excitātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon
** Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book VI
    Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.
       A small spark neglected has often roused to a great inferno.
* (transitive) to bring forth: to raise, build
* (transitive, figuratively) to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stimulate, set in motion
    Synonyms: īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, irrītō, stimulō, sollicitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, concitō, urgeō, impellō, īnflammō, incendō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, ērigō
    Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, restinguō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō
* (transitive, figuratively) to call upon: to cite

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* excitatio

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Gallurese: sciutà
** Neapolitan: scetare
** Sassarese: isceddà, isciddà
** Sicilian: scitare (Calabrian)
* Sardinian:
** Campidanese: schidai
** Logudorese: ischidare
** Nuorese: ischitare
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Old Occitan: esedar
* Vulgar Latin:
** ⇒ *dēexcitō (see there for further descendants)
* → Catalan: excitar
* → English: excite
* → Esperanto: eksciti
* → French: exciter
* → Friulian: ecitâ
* → Galician: excitar
* → Italian: eccitare
* → Piedmontese: ecité
* → Portuguese: excitar
* → Romanian: excita
* → Spanish: excitar

### References

* “excito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “excito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* excito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to make up, stir up a fire: ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51) to rouse, wake some one: (e) somno excitare, dormientem excitare to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare to excite emotion: motus excitare in animo (opp. sedare, exstinguere) to put a man in a pleasurable frame of mind: animum alicuius ad laetitiam excitare to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour: excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum) to awaken new hope in some one: ad spem aliquem excitare, erigere to rouse a person's suspicions: suspicionem movere, excitare, inicere, dare alicui to rouse in some one an enthusiasm for virtue: excitare aliquem ad virtutem to arouse some one's lust: libidinem alicuius excitare to summon some one from the dead: aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere) to build a tower: turrim excitare, erigere, facere to cause a war: bellum facere, movere, excitare to incite to valour: ad virtutem excitare, cohortari (or simply adhortari, cohortari)
* excito in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “excitare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 273

## Portuguese
### Verb

excito
* first-person singular present indicative of excitar

## Spanish
### Verb

excito
* first-person singular present indicative of excitar